A Star Curiously Vanished From the Sky Back in 2009 and Astronomers Might Finally Know Why

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  • 8 months ago
Back in 2009 astronomers noticed something a bit odd in the night sky, a star which has recently increased in luminosity suddenly disappeared. It was an odd observation as experts expected the star, which they believed was going supernova, to explode. Instead, it disappeared.

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